Arinn Dembo
Arinn Dembo was born in 1970.
She is an American author currently living and writing in British Columbia.
Dembo is best known for her work with Vancouver-based Kerberos Productions,
where she is Lead Writer and has worked on the background fiction for the Sword of the Stars
series and Fort Zombie. She attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1990 and
holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology with a minor in Classical Civilizations from the University of Tennessee.

Science fiction novels have evolved over the past twenty years into something more than just unusual aliens on
vast, distant planets. The Deacon's Tale: A Sword of the Stars Novel is part of the Sword of the Stars
series where these novels are based on the successful strategy computer game of which there are three novels.

The book was originally thought of back in 2007 as a teaser to a new expansion of the game called
Born of Blood. In 2008, The Sword of the Stars Complete Collection was taken up by many fans of the
game. Author Arinn Dembo decided to revise her original novel and this is the result complete with extensive
appendices for those new to the saga.

The Deacon's Tale: A Sword of the Stars Novel combines the feel of a space opera with the military might
of a full-length episode of Babylon 5 or Star Trek: The Next Generation. Arinn Dembo shows
us a dark future, but one filled with a sense of hope, and the human's sense of survival in the most dangerous of
circumstances. The protagonist, Cai Rui is a good humoured man who has to beat his way through adversity and
all odds until he reaches his goal of taking down an alien entity calling himself The Deacon, and he threatens
everything Cai stands for.

Arrin Dembo gives the reader a broad view of how the church has not progressed, even though alien species are
being discovered. Cai notices that the décor has not changed in the Vatican, and in time none of their views
have either. The church seems to have a deep hatred of the Tarka who the Cardinal believes have killed his
curate, Turion after he went on a supposedly safe mission. The Cardinal's venomous hatred of the Tarka is
obvious, even though he does not know for sure that they killed Turion. It is this hatred that leads to
misunderstanding and all out war.

Unsure of what he might find, Cai wants to investigate the murder, and find who the culprit is. Once his
investigation starts, Cai is drawn into a cruel world of mystery and intrigue he never thought possible.

It is a slow moving plot that makes sure the reader gets to visually see the background of the story, the
essential characters and the final outcome.

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